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It can be a poverty thing too.
If you struggle to pay normal bills, letting it warm up makes the bill higher. So grow up poor, and you find out lots of habits of yours exist to save less than a dollar a day.
Does water service not come with a base volume in most places? Where I am, we have a base service fee of $20/m and that includes like the first 2000 gallons, and I struggle to even hit that most months. Jumping in a cold shower wouldn't actually save me any money .
In the US, I've never seen that on any water bill in my life. It's just dollars per gallon here.
How closely have you looked at your bill? This has been the case in at least 3 different places in the US for me.
Not insanely closely to be honest.
Same here, lived in a few different states and usually never got out of the first “tier” pricing bracket (where this billing method was used), so my water bills were pretty much to the penny the same every month.
Yeah, we have a base amount of water here. 2 people never got over base, with 3 we sometimes go over and have to pay more.
You're also paying for your heater to heat that water. If you don't use as much hot water, your electricity/gas bill should be slightly lower.
I think it's a about heating the water and not the amount of water used